Man Charged With Providing Drugs In Falls Twp. Overdose Death: DA

FALLS TOWNSHIP, PA —A Tullytown man has been charged with providing the drugs that led to a woman’s overdose death in Falls Township in November 2021, authorities said.

Steven Frederick Yard Jr., 31, of S. Kenwood Drive in Tullytown, was charged Wednesday with drug delivery resulting in death, possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, involuntary manslaughter, recklessly endangering another person, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.

He was arraigned by Magisterial District Judge Jan Vislosky and was released on $100,000 unsecured bail, the Bucks County District Attorney's Office said.

The investigation began on Nov. 16, 2021, when Falls Township Police were dispatched at 11:14 p.m. to 100 Yardley Ave. for an overdose.

Police found Mary Coyle, 39, deceased on a bed and Steven Yard actively overdosing on the floor in the same bedroom.

Falls Township Detective Stephen Reeves —who spoke to Yard in the emergency room of Jefferson Health - Bucks Campus in Falls Township —said that Yard drove to the Kensington section of Philadelphia and purchased 12 bags of heroin for himself and Coyle.

When he returned to the Yardley Avenue home, Yard and Coyle both used heroin.

Yard woke up to find Coyle deceased in the bed, so he rolled her on her back and began to perform CPR.

Yard did another bag of heroin and discarded several bags of heroin under a couch in the room when the police arrived, authorities said.

During the investigation, police seized a dollar bill used to snort drugs, along with three empty blue-colored wax paper bags, commonly used to package heroin. The dollar bill tested positive for the presence of cocaine.

Under a couch, police located six more wax paper bags, these ones containing suspected heroin/Fentanyl. The deputy coroner located three more wax bags containing suspected heroin/Fentanyl in the robe Coyle was wearing.

An autopsy later concluded that Coyle died of acute Fentanyl intoxication. Lab results indicated that all the contents of the wax paper bags tested positive for Fentanyl.

The case was investigated by Falls Township Police Department, led by Detective Stephen Reeves, and is assigned for prosecution to Assistant District Attorney Chad R. Kovack.